What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Castletown, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a low north-south ridge as a circular grass-covered area forty metres across, bounded by an overgrown earthen bank that becomes a scarp on parts of its edge. A shallow fosse cuts through the south-western bank, but no entrance remains visible. Leamgire castle stands about one hundred and thirty metres to the south-west.

On a low N-S ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth 3m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 1.25-1.5m) SSW-NNW reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m at N to 1.9m at E) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth 3m of base; D 0.4m) SSW-SW. There is no visible entrance. Leamgire castle (RO010-075----) is c. 130m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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